What is our message?
John Macmurray has the answer, says Jack Cummings
Recently I was reading a 1936 edition of Studies in Quaker Thought and Practice in which Maurice L Rowntree writes: ‘George Fox did not set out to found a sect’, but he ‘came to see that disembodied spiritual movements cannot succeed and do a permanent work in the world’. We, as members of the Religious Society of Friends, still desire to succeed and do permanent work. However, we will struggle to succeed unless more hear our ministry and come to join us in our work.
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